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DUBAI: Since dictator Muammar Gaddafi was toppled from power in 2011, Libya has been mired in chaos. A decade on from the protests that led to his downfall, the oil-rich country is wracked by political instability, violence, economic chaos, and, since last year, an explosion in COVID-19 infections. On Sept. 21, Libya’s eastern-based parliament passed a vote of no confidence in

С. Белковский― Доброй субботы, дорогие друзья! Это «Эхо Москвы», программа «Время» — «Время Белковского». С вами в студии Станислав Белковский. Эпиграф. На этот раз буквально из школьной программы, очень простой. Все его знают и помнят — я не сказал, что любят, ибо знать и п...

The Biden administration has just appointed its first special envoy for Libya and sent Assistant Secretary of State Joey Hood to visit the North African nation.

Dr. Brian McQuinn is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina and co-founder of the Digital Traces of Conflict Project (tracesofconflict.ca). McQuinn co-edited The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath (Oxford University Press). He has two decades of experience as a researcher and humanitarian worker in a dozen conflicts. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford after completing ethnographic fieldwork with insurgents in the 2011 uprising in Libya. His research was publish...

Want the revolution but say look where raping your daughter. others even rape the muffins. afterwards they say i was in misrata and i rate ive been guarding i raped at tobruk i raped what is this boasting. i rape your sister rape truck. but i did this to you i also rate joe mother well what kind of a fight is that almost. all of those. almost looked after that the revolutionaries were even worse. one hundred one when i was in prison they did everything to what they teach us they stopped us think...

Wrong. it destroys everything it is a country apart so. the first campaigns of mass rape were intended to crush the libyan revolution. then revenge took its place libyas former rulers deployed rape. the new ones adopted the same tools it was a vicious circle. in the spring of twenty seventeen the international criminal court finally broke its silence it published an indictment against a senior official of the gadhafi regime who had allegedly ordered soldiers to commit rape stering the revolution...

Go a bit crazy. some used units took part in the seizure of misrata in two thousand and eleven he was witness to some of the early horrors of the revolution. us. during the war we went into peoples houses. terrible things were done to them and. some soldiers rates people. but i cant tell you the battalions name. but its completely true. the minute a soldier always follows orders. he a base the officers about him. see if. they tie up the brother the father and rate the daughter in front of them. ...

In bosnia rwanda congo and syria women and children were the main victims. in the libyan conflict it is men who appear to have been the targets although proof has been hard to come by. even after six months of investigation there are still no leads the moment the word rape is mentioned in libya everyone falls silent only one person has dared to break that silence back in march twenty seventh at the very start of the revolution.

Bomber salman abedi. >> meantime libyan militia says it has detained abedis father and brother and that the brother admits the siblings were members of isis. our atika shubert is in manchester with more on abedis possible ties to terror. >> reporter: where did salman abedi turn to isis? two possibilities. syria and libya. but the answer may be much closer to home. last year abedi was seen with this man, also british libyan but now in prison convicted for funneling fighters into syria. a seasoned...

People who knew the bomber are trying to help investigators connect the doubt, right in. >> absolutely. >> earlier in the investigation british police told cnn he was known to the authorities. we retraced his footsteps and through that we were able to discover a concrete link. where did salman abedi turn to isis? two possibility, syria and libya, but the answer may be much closer to home. last year abedi was seen with this man, british libyan and now in prison, convicted for funneling fighters i...